The Nashville Parks Foundation is dedicated to enhancing Nashville’s public parks and expanding recreational opportunities, while promoting sustainable growth of the city’s park system. This project will update the infrastructure of Elizabeth Senior Center, Nashville’s only dedicated Senior Center, with a new kitchen, flooring, paint, and furniture. This project is a critical step toward ensuring that Nashville’s aging population can thrive in place.
Merced County is a local government agency dedicated to providing essential public services that enhance safety, well-being, and quality of life for its diverse and predominantly rural communities. The Lowe’s Community Impact Grant will fund critical renovations to the historic El Nido Community Hall. These improvements will preserve the community’s only dedicated public gathering space and strengthen its ability to serve as a hub for services, emergency response, and community events.
The Kokomo-Howard County Public Library serves residents of Howard County, Indiana, by creating opportunities for its community to become its best. With Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the library will install a sidewalk to make its performance stage accessible, add family-style seating, and revitalize its Community and Butterfly Gardens. These improvements will allow access to the stage for patrons with mobility issues and parents with strollers and create a more enjoyable space.
The Hidden Valley Community Garden and Beautification Committees are dedicated to cultivating a healthy, connected neighborhood and shared green spaces for the community to enjoy. With support from the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the committees will renovate and expand its garden beds, beautify and install community areas for planting and congregating, while creating accessibility for seniors and disabled residents. These enhancements will increase community pride, food access, promote wellness and community engagement.
Hero’s and SHero’s Corner provides a safe, sober, trauma-informed drop-in center in Kentwood, Michigan, where veterans and their families across West Michigan can access peer support, mental health recovery resources, meals, workforce readiness, outreach programming, and community connection. With the Lowe’s Community Impact Grant, the organization will renovate its 7,500-square-foot facility.
Heal the Bay is a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to improving the health of coastal waters, watersheds, and marine life of Los Angeles through science, education, community action, and advocacy. With the support of the Lowe's Community Impact Grant, Heal the Bay Aquarium will undertake facility renovations that expands its capacity as a coastal education and community resource for the students, educators, and families it serves.
Hands On Hartford’s mission is to care for its neighbors by meeting basic needs and supporting greater stability through food, housing, and health services. The Lowe’s Community Impact Grant will help the organization renovate bathrooms and backroom spaces to create a clean, welcoming environment for those who power its work. These improvements will uplift the people behind its programs, strengthening morale and well-being so they can continue serving Hartford’s most vulnerable residents.
The Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw, Inc. has served the community since 2014. The Lowe’s Community Impact Grant will provide the necessary funding to place the playground at the Community Outreach Program Office (COPO) which will contribute to bringing children and families together in a safe environment that supports everyday interaction and the rebuilding of cultural continuity.
The mission of GCCA is “to foster, promote, and develop cooperation, good fellowship, and neighborliness among all persons living, working, or interested in this neighborhood; to coordinate efforts to solve neighborhood problems; and to enhance the civic and general welfare of this community”. Lowe’s Community Impact Grant revitalize its community garden, a community asset since 1988.
FiftyForward Donelson Station’s mission is to support, champion, and enhance the lives of those 50 and older through programs that promote healthy aging, connection, and lifelong engagement. Grant funding will allow the organization to replace the deteriorating flooring in its lobby, hallways, and classrooms, creating a safer, more accessible, and more welcoming environment for all who use our facility. These improvements will strengthen its ability to serve more than 800 older adults and host community partners, ensuring the center remains a vibrant hub for the Donelson area.